Throughout the game, you will collect multiple tomes, stretching across five tiers, which provide opportunities to build upon and unlock affinities and powers, as well as access new ones. Alternatively, you can choose a different affinity, combining the search for harmony with cannibalistic tendencies and a tight relationship with nature’s more poisonous side. You can choose to lean into your already chosen affinity, such as creating a race of harmony-seeking toads who do good and rely on faith to heal their units. Once your selections have been made, you then choose your very first Tome of Magic, which acts as a chunk of a tech tree granting initial bonuses alongside five or six researchable technologies. Choosing a Mystic path increases mana income and strengthens troops when spells are cast. Industrious races produce units and buildings faster, while their soldiers receive additional defense after getting attacked. This may also nudge your alignment towards good or evil.įor example, the Dark culture offers additional Knowledge used for research and focuses on applying negative status effects to enemy units. Additionally, you can select its origin culture and societal traits which determine the types of affinity and units it starts with, initial gameplay style, and principles that guide your empire.

You have the ability to fully customize your race’s bodily form, including the length of your followers’ arms and legs, as well as choose the color of its armor.

Society traits are an important pillar when designing your race.

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